THE VAMPYRE FAMILY: PASSION, ENVY AND THE CURSE OF BYRON

Book ID/图书代码： 04851313B66492

English Summary/英文概要： In the spring of 1816, Lord Byron was the greatest poet of his generation and the most famous man in Britain, but his personal life was about to erupt. Fleeing his celebrity, notoriety and debts, he sought refuge in Europe, taking his young doctor with him. As an inexperienced medic with literary aspirations of his own, Dr Polidori could not believe his luck.

That summer another literary star also arrived in Geneva. With Percy Bysshe Shelley came his lover, Mary and her step-sister Claire Clairmont. For the next three months, this party of young bohemians shared their lives, charged with sexual and artistic tensions. It was a period of extraordinary creativity from which would emerge Frankenstein, the gothic masterpiece of Romantic fiction, Byron’s Childe Harold, Shelley’s Mont Blanc, and The Vampyre by John Polidori, the first great vampire novel.

It was also a time of remarkable drama and emotional turmoil. For Byron and the Shelleys, their stay by the lake would serve to immortalise them in the annals of literary history. But for Claire and Polidori, the Swiss sojourn would scar them forever.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 關於英國詩人拜倫的傳記

Awards/获奖情况：‘Stott has found a new way to explore the story of this famous literary gathering….the result is a fascinating, moving and very different kind of book…Combining a gift for shrewd portraiture with a theatrical sense of the exceptional events that he describes, McConnell Stott has written a fresh, poignant and radiantly stylish book about an extraordinary group of people.’ - Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times

‘Andrew McConnell Stott has found a novel and illuminating way of treating the storylines which came together that summer of 1816. He shifts the emphasis away from the literary lions, Byron and Shelley, to Polidori and Clairmont, the paid hanger-on and the self-deluding humiliated groupie, and so makes of it a parable about fame — the delusions which feed it, the cruelty it occasions, the disenchantment which follows on the lifting of its spell….His ingenious narrative structure neatly plaits the converging lines of the characters’ trajectories….His prose is racy and elegantly simple for the most part but fizzes occasionally into a display of lexicographical fireworks….In McConnell Stott’s fresh and engaging version of these intertwined well-known stories, the glamour of Romantic genius is shadowed by real pain — not the theatrical melancholy of a Childe Harold or of Shelley’s passionate outcry against injustice in the abstract, but the shaming, truly agonising pain of rejection and failure.- Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Spectator

About the Author/作者介绍： Andrew Stott is the author of COMEDY (Routledge, 2005) and THE PANTOMIME LIFE OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI (Canongate, 2009), which won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize for Non-Fiction, the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography, and the George Freedley Memorial Award. Grimaldi was a BBC Radio 4 ’Book of the Week,’ and was named as one of the Guardian’s ’Books of the Year’ for 2010. In 2010-11, he was a Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Andrew is Professor of English and Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University of Buffalo, SUNY

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